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Nietzschean will to power as the imperative of life

The Darwinian orthodoxy established evolution by natural selection, ‘survival of the fittest’, and the Nietzschean answer to the fundamental principle of life was different, the ‘will to power’. He had explicitly clarified his answer as a counter to the prejudice of the physiologists. I had naively identified the will to power with spiritual darkness from my own metaphysical experiences.
But clear knowledge that the universe is indeed four dimensional and metaphysical, the clear experience of disincarnate metaphysical beings provides us with an opportunity of expanding our view of life. In an eternal metaphysical universe, the existence of intelligent consciousness reaches back to eternity, and the principle of conscious life could be understood as will to power. In order to appreciate how penetrating had been Nietzsche’s intuition, consider his analysis of the highly spiritualized will to power of the adherents of the ascetic ideals. The example of ascetic ideals is particularly illuminating because by the most naive of conceptions of will to power, the ascetic ideals would seem to explicitly deny such a will. Furthermore, the ascetic ideals also seem to disregard the principle of life held by orthodox science, of a survival of the fittest.